{"id":5270,"date":"2022-10-26T00:30:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T22:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5270"},"modified":"2022-10-26T01:32:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T23:32:30","slug":"i-will-myself-be-carried-as-i-was-seeing-this-cardinal-being-carried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5270","title":{"rendered":"I WILL MYSELF BE CARRIED AS I WAS SEEING THIS CARDINAL BEING CARRIED"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The fear of death follows fromt he fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” Mark Twain<\/span><\/h3>\n

Joseph Bernet had been Archbishop of Aix from 1836 to 1846. In 1846 he had been made a cardinal and returned to Aix on March 25 in a procession along the streets of Aix en Provence.<\/h3>\n

He died four months later and Eugene reflects in his diary on the thoughts that passed through his mind as he walked in the funeral procession.<\/h3>\n

During the procession, in the absence of singing, I said some rosaries for the deceased. My spirit was preoccupied with a thousand thoughts. <\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

First that a state pretty much the same was reserved for me, that I will myself be carried as I was seeing this cardinal being carried, that his successor would perhaps come to render to me what I am doing today for him, by consequence, that the life of this world was a little thing, etc. <\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

How not to reflect on the vanity of things of the world when one thinks that it is not more than one hundred days, barely one hundred days, that Bishop Bernet made his triumphal entry pretty much by the same streets where we were carrying him dead today. Thus, his red soutane was but a shroud for him.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Eugene de Mazenod\u2019s Diary, 9 August 1846, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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